Following the launch of our Medley tournament format, and the end of the Mind Sports Olympiad’s Grand Prix event, online platform PlayStrategy is starting up a regular series of tournaments: Medley Shields.
There will be three Medley Shields to win that will run on a regular weekly schedule.
The third and final Medley draughts tournament will take place on Saturday, June 25, at 14:00 UTC/16:00 MSK. We invite you to participate. (more…)
From June 13 to June 20, the city of Jõgeva (Estonia) hosts the 11th international draughts-64 tournament “Jõgeva 2022”. Competitions are held in three programs: Blitz, Rapid and Classic.
International grandmaster Guntis Valneris (Latvia) won Rapid. International grandmaster Arno Uutma (Estonia) won Blitz. The Classic program started. Follow the results. (more…)
The MSO Grand Prix 2022 is a brand-new online Mind Sports competition, which took place from April 15 to May 29, 2022 on various online venues across seven game categories.
This was a separate event within the MSO Mind Sports Olympiad. The Olympiad itself, if circumstances permit, will return to its traditional face-to-face format in 2022.
See the results of the draughts-64 tournaments within the MSO 2022 Grand Prix. (more…)
Abdul Hafiz became the winner of the Uganda national draughts-64 championships (poolcheckers and Russian version of draughts-64)!
The first of two UDF annual national poolcheckers draughts championships took place on 8th May 2022 at Hotel D’Venue in Masindi town.
A total of 30 players (28 men and 2 ladies) took part in the championship. (more…)
Due to covid-19 restrictions in 2021, significant problems with crossing borders and entering some countries, many players were unable to participate in the 2021 World Cup stages, some of the competitions were cancelled.
In connection with this and the requests of the national federations, the IDF Board on 10/03/2022 decided to sum up the results of the 2021 World Cup and hold the 2022 World Cup in 2022. (more…)
The International Draughts Federation (IDF) together with the Uzbekistan Draughts Federation in accordance with the Calendar of the competitions in 2022 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, International competition in draughts-64 “Uzbekistan-2022” – World Cup.
International masters Grigory Getmansky and Viktoryia Nikalayeva won the Rapid program of the World Cup!
International grandmasters Andrey Valiuk and Vera Khvaschinskaya won Blitz and Classic program of the World Cup! (more…)
Zambia Draughts Federation held on 15th to 17th April 2022 in Olympic Youth Development Centre of Lusaka, capital of Zambia, the Tentani D. Mwanzah Individual Draughts-64 National championship in honor of ZDF Founding President Mr. Tentani D. Mwanzah.
15-old William, Chinzewe became the new Zambia champion and received the title of IDF master!
Elijah, Chanda took 2nd place, international grandmaster and African champion 2016 Richard, Mwamba took 3rd place. (more…)
For the first time in history, a delegation of Portuguese draughts players came to Israel and took part in several competitions. It should be noted that this event became possible largely thanks to the International Draughts Federation (IDF) and its leadership, who did a lot for the development of draughts in Portugal.
The events were held with the cooperation of the draughts federations of Israel and Portugal, and the municipalities of the cities of Kiryat Gat and Karnei Shomron, as well as draughts activists, grandmasters Yuri Kirillov, Dmitry Ganopolsky and Nuno Viera from the Portuguese side. (more…)
Attention! The IDF calendar has been updated.
Due to the situation in Ukraine and in order to ensure the safety of players, coaches and representatives, it was decided to postpone the competitions scheduled in Turkey in April 2022:
1). European Youth Draughts-64 Championship, scheduled from April 23 to May 1, is postponed to October-November 2022. Сompetitions will be held in Turkey.
2) World Cup, scheduled from 23 to 29 April, will be held in the capital of Uzbekistan, Tashkent, from 6 to 14 May 2022. Regulations will be published soon. (more…)
Official statement of IDF Board
As part of the world draughts community, which unites players, coaches and all fans of our game regardless of skin color, religion, nationality and political views, the International Draughts Federation (IDF) considers it necessary to express its position in connection with the situation in Ukraine: (more…)
